After dinner drinks
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- Joanbunting
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After dinner drinks
After the disappointment of my failed 50's party yesterday we cheered ourselves up with a very indulgent Sunday lunch.
I don't usually drink coffee after lunch - even less have a degestif but today I did both!!
We had a lovely Bordeaux with slow roasted shoulder of lamb on the bone with roasted root vegetables. After pineapple fritters with vanilla icecream we had coffee and cognac. Why not - and what a treat.
What do you enjoy after a really special meal. especially Christmas.
My other choices would include green Chartreuse or a really chilled Marc de Chateauneuf with just one squarw od darkest darkest chocolate.
I don't usually drink coffee after lunch - even less have a degestif but today I did both!!
We had a lovely Bordeaux with slow roasted shoulder of lamb on the bone with roasted root vegetables. After pineapple fritters with vanilla icecream we had coffee and cognac. Why not - and what a treat.
What do you enjoy after a really special meal. especially Christmas.
My other choices would include green Chartreuse or a really chilled Marc de Chateauneuf with just one squarw od darkest darkest chocolate.
- Stokey Sue
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Re: After dinner drinks
Armagnac is my digestif of choice, or Calvados
Don't really do the sweet ones, though sloe gin or hoemamade liqueurs can be nice for a change
My Gascon OH remembered a family wedding that ended at about 4 am with a football supporter style brawl between Armagnac and Cognac supporters, though I doubt they could tell the difference by then! Allegiance to rugby teams may have been a contributing factor I suspect
Don't really do the sweet ones, though sloe gin or hoemamade liqueurs can be nice for a change
My Gascon OH remembered a family wedding that ended at about 4 am with a football supporter style brawl between Armagnac and Cognac supporters, though I doubt they could tell the difference by then! Allegiance to rugby teams may have been a contributing factor I suspect
- Joanbunting
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Re: After dinner drinks
French rugby players eh? I see both Montpellier and Clemont Auvergne beat Brit teams at the weekend. I wonder what they celebrated/drowned their sorrows with afterwards.
I have to say an old Calvados takes a lot of beating.
Re: After dinner drinks
If I fancy a coffee after dinner it is usually an expresso with sugar. I also like a large brandy or a glass of Cointreau.
- Joanbunting
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Re: After dinner drinks
A woman after my own heart calabash
M bought me a bottle of green Chartreuse today - but he says it will be locked in the filing cabinet and distributed on high days and holidays only
M bought me a bottle of green Chartreuse today - but he says it will be locked in the filing cabinet and distributed on high days and holidays only
Re: After dinner drinks
I have never tasted green Chartreuse - what is the flavour profile? I am going to use Christmas as an excuse to buy every after dinner drink I like I remember my Scots mother being fond of Rusty Nails - Drambuie and whiskey I think?
- Joanbunting
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Re: After dinner drinks
Hi Calabash
Green Chartreuse is amazingly herby - in fact it tastes like the smell of the area around le Grande Chatreuse in the mountains near Grenoble.
The carthusian monks who make it are a silent order, each living in their own cell with a workshop and a garden.
We visited one easter Monday and though you can't get in to the actual monastery you can climb a sttep path to a stunning viewing point overlooking it. There are notices all the way up the path asking for silence. As we climbed we could hear loud laughter and we tutted and said how thoughtless folk can be. We reached the viewing point overlooking a high terrace and realised that the noise was being made by the brothers clearly enjoying their holiday.
A few moments later a bell tolled and there was immediate silence. The hoods went over, the hands were tucked into sleeves and a white robed line made it's way off the terrace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Chartreuse
M's favourite poem of his favourite poet was inspired by the place so we have been several times.
Green Chartreuse is amazingly herby - in fact it tastes like the smell of the area around le Grande Chatreuse in the mountains near Grenoble.
The carthusian monks who make it are a silent order, each living in their own cell with a workshop and a garden.
We visited one easter Monday and though you can't get in to the actual monastery you can climb a sttep path to a stunning viewing point overlooking it. There are notices all the way up the path asking for silence. As we climbed we could hear loud laughter and we tutted and said how thoughtless folk can be. We reached the viewing point overlooking a high terrace and realised that the noise was being made by the brothers clearly enjoying their holiday.
A few moments later a bell tolled and there was immediate silence. The hoods went over, the hands were tucked into sleeves and a white robed line made it's way off the terrace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Chartreuse
M's favourite poem of his favourite poet was inspired by the place so we have been several times.
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